Watch-tower Sentence Examples

Here also are a tablet marking the location of the old fort (1621), which was also used as a place of worship, a tablet showing the site of the watch-tower built in 1643, and a marble obelisk erected in 1825 in memory of Governor William Bradford.

Among other buildings are a picturesque old castle dating from the 13th century, now in ruins with the exception of a few rooms used as a prison; the new castle, used as a fire watch-tower; and the town hall.

In the middle is the office of the administration, and on the top of this a small watch-tower.

Thus they make Mer y a sort of watch tower over the entrance into Afghanistan on the north-west and at the same time create a stepping-stone or etape between north-east Persia and the states of Bokhara and Samarkand.

The public buildings, which include an interesting watch-tower and belfry, are large, substantial and well cared for.

Close by is the Tour du Guet, or watch-tower, used as a lighthouse until 1848.

In the old city also are the Plaza Vieja, dating from the middle of the 16th century (with the modern Mercado de Cristina, of 1837 - destroyed 1908), the old stronghold La Fuerza, erected by Hernando de Soto in 1538, once the treasury of the flotas and galleons, and residence of the governors, with its old watch-tower (La Vigia); and the Plaza de Armas, with the palace, the Senate building, a statue of Fernando VII.

Viewed from the river it makes a somewhat gloomy, though picturesque, impression, with its parish church (a basilica dating from the 12th century, with four towers), the round watch-tower on the Rhine, old walls in places 15 ft.

The Luginsland is an old watch-tower of the 13th century.

Close to it is a watch-tower and a spring of fresh water.

Not far from these ruins stands the Luginsland, a stronghold with four corner turrets, said to have been built by the burghers in 1367 as a watch-tower against the burg of the Hohenzollerns.

On the hill are traces of British fortification, including a circular building, probably a Roman watch-tower.

Pennant thinks that it was originally " a watch tower to mark the inroads of the scots in their naval inroads of the scots in their naval inroads.